WRST-FM specials to mark 50th anniversary of Kennedy assassination

9:45 PM,
Nov. 20, 2013

Written by

Randall Davidson
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WRST-FM will air special segments and programs to mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy.

At 5 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 22, WRST's "Week In Review" will air some historic audio originally aired by the network now known as Wisconsin Public Radio. It's the actual material the state network broadcast that day, largely made up of NBC radio and TV feeds, but with a local interruption by news director Roy Vogelman at WHA in Madison with the bulletin that Kennedy had died. This audio originally aired in this area over WHKW-FM in Chilton (now WPNE-FM in Green Bay). Wisconsin ...